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THIS WEEK’S SIGN OF THE HIGHER-ED APOCALYPSE

“America’s acute comedian shortage has been a familiar embarrassment for years. Hilarity experts have fretted that this great nation isn’t producing enough stand-up comics to sustain our historical humor edge over naturally funny rivals such as Poland and Great Britain.

Nightclub owners, people who like jokes about airplane food and the entire republic can only rejoice, then, at the news that Columbia College Chicago and The Second City, Chicago’s celebrated improv comedy troupe, are launching a degree program in comedy writing and performance. . . .” READ MORE HERE